The Reverend Walter “Slim” Coleman was one of several clergy who endorsed Quinn at an event on the South Side Thursday. Coleman talked up the importance of registering “unlikely voters”, people who feel isolated from the political process.

But then, with the Democratic governor silently at his side, Coleman warned against another kind of “unlikely voter.”

"That’s an unlikely voter that began way back in 1961 and ’62 with the Ku Klux Klan, that grew up through the militias, that came outta the militias and, and, and – came in to call themselves conservatives, and then came in to call themselves Republican. That’s a movement that brings an evil that we have got to stop!”